Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The internet is broken because it is a business, owned by private firms for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. The solution to those crises is straightforward: deprivatize the internet.
In this video Ben Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today.
Ben Tarnoff is the author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future out now: versobooks.com/books/3927-internet-for-the-people?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=internet_for_the_people&utm_content=author_video
The internet is broken because it is a business, owned by private firms for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. The solution to those crises is straightforward: deprivatize the internet.
In this video Ben Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today.
Ben Tarnoff is the author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future out now: versobooks.com/books/3927-internet-for-the-people?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=internet_for_the_people&utm_content=author_video
